Dairy Challenge a success! March 3, 009 Celebrating making better food choices and moving more! Raymond Inside this issue: 3-A-Day Dairy Message Raymond Family YMCA Fun Night Team Raymond Thinks Our Drink! Clarabelle Visits Raymond Classrooms Special points of interest: Kids who make healthy choices have 3 cups of low-fat or fatfree milk or equivalents each day. Together, milk, cheese and yogurt provide nine essential nutrients, including 3 of the 5 nutrients the government says are too low in kids diets:calcium, potassium and magnesium. The 006 American Academy of Pediatrics report states that eating calcium-rich dairy foods such as milk, cheese and yogurt during childhood and adolescence will build strong bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis later in life. 1 Here are some commonly asked questions related to our calcium and dairy intake. Why is calcium important? Calcium helps build strong bones and teeth. How much calcium do I need?the amount of calcium needed varies according to age. For most age groups, 3-A -Day is recommended (3- servings of milk, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy foods). 3 -A-Day provides almost 1,000 mg of calcium, the amount recommended as a Daily Value (DV) on food labels. Four servings a day is a good goal for kids during rapid bone growth - 9-18 years old - and for adults over 50! What are good food sources?dairy products (milk, cheese, yogurt) are the most concentrated food sources of calcium. Other A healthy cow can give 00,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. One cow produces 90 glasses of milk a day. It takes 10 lbs of milk to make 1 lb of cheese. The five largest milk-producing The 3-A-Day Dairy Message good sources are dry beans, calcium-fortified orange juice, dark green vegetables (broccoli, kale, collards and turnip greens), and calciumcontaining soymilk. Amounts of high calcium foods equivalent to one serving (Approximately 300 milligrams of calcium):1 cup of milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, or calcium-fortified orange juice, 3 cups of spinach or cooked dried beans, 1-1/ oz. cheesenote: Even people who are mildly lactose intolerant often can enjoy small amounts of dairy products, such as yogurt, cheese and lactasetreated milk. Is it true that along with good calcium intake physical activity increases bone strength? Like muscle, bone is living tissue that responds to use! Did you know? states: California, Wisconsin,New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. They produce 5%of the nation's milk supply. The most popular American natural cheese is cheddar. The first milk mustache celebrity was Naomi Campbell. Walker Heard and Michael Powers try out flavored milks for our taste test. Physical activity that places weight on the bones during action gives bones a workout. As a result the bone ecomes stronger! This kind of physical activity is called weightbearing exercise. Strong bones help us be less susceptible to fractures and bone deterioration (osteoporosis). Mozzarella is the number one cheese used on pizza. One teaspoon of yogurt contains over 1 billion live and active good bacteria. Ohio leads all other states in the production of Swiss cheese.
Page Dairy Challenge a success! Raymond Family YMCA Fun Night Moving More After School Over 130 students and family members turned out February 6th to join in Raymond s first Family YMCA Fun Night. Participants rotated through various stations that highlighted moving more and making better food choices. Favorites included Students create Yogurt Parfaits provided by the UCHD. swimming in the pool and the Dairy Challenge Kick-Off station, where families posed for their Milk Mustache photos and students were able to build yogurt parfaits. Families also joined efforts in the Boot Camp station and parents heard Dr. Justin Krueger present on Raising a Fit Kid in an Un-Fit World while students enjoyed a Health and Fitness Game with the Honda Wellness Center. Many community resources were on hand to support our wellness efforts. Those included the Union Co. YMCA staff, the Honda Wellness Center, the Union Co. Health Department, Memorial Hospital, Marysville Pediatrics, Nationwide Children s Hospital, Action for Healthy Kids, the American Dairy Association Mid-East, and the Ohio Department of Education. The family event was made possible by Raymond s involvement in the Operation Fit Kids program with Honda s Wellness Center and the Union Co. YMCA. Raymond Students Think Our Drink! Students participated in our recent taste test featuring flavored milks. They were encouraged to really think their drinks.focusing on the idea that flavoring the milk added variety and that all were nutritional alternatives to sports drinks and sodas. To find out more check out this site: http://www.3aday.org/my-family- And-Me Students voted.the favorite flavored milk at Raymond is CHOCOLATE! Chocolate, Strawberry and 1% milk samples. Clarabelle Visits Raymond Classrooms! Raymond students hosted a virtual four footed factory as Mrs. Heard shared the 008 winner of the Ohio Farm Bureau s Award for Children s Literature. The classroom visit featured Clarabelle a Mrs. Heard shares Clarabelle s story with nd graders. holstein dairy cow and showcased the collaboration between humans and animals that is at the heart of American agriculture. Students were amazed that cows produce more than just milk...electricity, fer- tilizer and bedding are also on their list. Students reviewed types of cheese and also sampled Swiss cheese, which Ohio is the leading producer of in the United States. Finally, our students voted on their favorite cheese..mozzerella. Leaving our students to say, More cheese, please!
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